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Sex and the City: No Ifs, And or Butts / Season 3, Episode 5 (2000, USA) by Darren Star
Main Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker; Kim Cattral;
Company: HBO
This sitcom is about four women bachelors in New York, who talk about their sex life and what it means to be a woman at the end of the 20th century.
Scene: tobacco, female, cigarette, in company, social problem, USA
0:12:42-0:13:30: tobacco
Carrie sits together with her date Aidan on some staircases. She starts to smoke. He is surprised that Carrie smokes. As a reaction Carrie throws the cigarette away.
Clip: 417

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008, D) from Uli Edel
Main Cast: Martina Gedeck; Moritz Bleibtreu
Company: Constantin Film Produktionen
The movie tells the story of an extreme-left terrorist group in the Germany of the 1970s.
Scene: tobacco, male, D, cigars, in company
0:20:35-0:21:42: tobacco
During a trial two of the terrorists are smugly smoking cigars.
Clip: 416

Match Point (2005, USA) by Woody Allen
Main actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers; Alexander Armstrong;
Company: BBC Films
Chris quits his tennis career and becomes a tennis instructor in posh club in London. There he makes friends with Tom and marries his sister. But he falls in love with Tom’s girlfriend and has to make the decision with which woman he wants to stay.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes alcohol nontransgressive in company
0:04:27-0:05:31: tobacco
Chris and Tom sit together after a match and have a small beer. They discuss music and opera in a very sophisticated manner. Tom is smoking a cigarette.
Clip: 402

Coffee and Cigarettes (2003, USA) by Jim Jarmusch
Main Cast: Robert Benigni; Bill Murray;
Company: Asmik Ace Entertainment
The movie consists of eleven short stories, each involving cigarettes and coffee. In every story coffee stands for solidarity and in each story they chinking coffee cups like one do with alcoholic drinks. Also smoking is despite some conversation about unhealthy smoking depicted very positively and in nearly every story a sign for solidarity.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes nontransgressive in company
0:15:34-0:17:15: tobacco
There is a pack of cigarettes on Iggy’s and Tom’s table. Iggy says that someone has probably forgotten it there. Then Iggy and Tom discuss that they have stopped smoking and how good it is. Now that they have stopped, Tom concludes they can smoke. Both smoke a cigarette and enjoy it very much.
On the one hand, there seem to be a real pleasure by smoking. On the other side, there is also the constrain depicted, as Tom and Iggy smoke, although they both agreed how good it is not to smoke. Hence the audience will see it as loss of control and consequently addiction.
Clip: 136

Catch me if you can (2002, USA) by Steven Spielberg
Main Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio; Tom Hanks;
Company: Dream Works
High-School student Frank Abagnale Jr. admires his father, although he has problems with the tax office. Because of these economical problems Frank’s parents argue a lot and finally they divorce. Frank starts to use counterfeit cheques, pretends to be a pilot and a doctor. In the end Frank gets caught by the police in Paris, with over 4 millions dollars cheated. Frank makes a deal with the FBI and works as an expert of cheque forgery.
Scene: tobacco female adults adolescent or children cigarettes nontransgressive solitary
Frank has to attend a public school, as his parents do not have any more the money to pay for his private one. Frank’s mother brings him with the car. She smokes, but Frank takes the cigarette and complains that she has promised to stop.
Clip: 16 (Addictions 4)

Rusalka (2007, RU) by Anna Melikian
Main Cast: Mariya Shalayeva; Yevgeni Tsyganov;
Company: Central Partnership
Film, inspired by famous fairy-tail, tells the story of Alice. Alice is a wonder-girl – she can magically influence the future. At the same time she is a looser. With 18 years she goes to Moscow to find her life’s chances. In the big city she collides into new troubles. She falls in love, but unfortunately the boy does not feel the same towards her.
Scene: tobacco female adults cigarettes transgressive in company
1:13:30-1:15:07: tobacco
Alice meets Rita, who proposes to attract the man Alice loves by making a symbolic ritual: smoking a cigarette with the name of the beloved person written on it.
Clip: 376

Odissey (1989, RU) by Ilia Chotinenko
Denis, a young guy, moves from his village to the city to continue his education and find a job. In the city he meets his elder brother, who has to show him the city life. But the brother seems to be a bad guy, as he is a gangster.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes nontransgressive in company
0:07:30-0:08:12: tobacco
The two brothers are going down some rail tracks. The elder proposes to smoke.
Clip: 377

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) by Mark Robson
Main Cast: William Holden and Grace Kelly
Company: Paramount Pictures
Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot Harry Brubaker must come to terms with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The film praises patriotism, masculinity and moral fortitude, which all reach their culmination in the grim end of this war drama. Several scenes of this film are accompanied with alchol and cigarettes.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes nontransgressive in company
Soldiers are getting instructions of the operation of bombing the bridges of Toko-Ri. Doesn't smoking underline their masculinity in this scene?
Clip: 65H (Addictions 1)

Killing Zoe (1993, USA) by Roger Avary
Main Cast: Eric Stoltz
Company: Davis Films
Zed, a thief and specialist in opening safes has been invited by his friend Eric to Paris. There they want to rob the Federal Reserve of France. In comparison to Zed, Eric and his gang are very brutal and they do not manage to prevent the alarm. The robbery ends in blood shed. Zoe, who is working at the bank, saved zed. Zoe is also a call girl, who met Zed on one of her “jobs”.
Scene: tobacco mixed adults cigarettes nontransgressive in company
0:13:40-0:17:26: tobacco
In this scene Zed is sharing a cigarette with Zoe after having sex.
This tobacco use is rather not seen as addiction.
Clip: 226

Platoon (1986, USA) by Oliver Stone
Main Cast: Charlie Sheen, Willem DaFoe
Company: Cinema 86
The movie is about an American platoon in the Vietnam War. The main character is Chris who enlisted himself out of idealistic reasons. The film shows the horrors of war, where oneself and the comrades can become a more dangerous enemy than the VC.
Scene: gambling alcohol male adults beer or cider strong tobacco cigarettes in company cards nontransgressive
0:32:44-0:33:57: alcohol/smoking/gambling
In this scene Sgt. Barnes and his squad sits together drinking, smoking and playing cards. The platoon’s lieutenant comes around to check his soldiers’ morale. Barnes offers the lieutenant to play, but he refuses.
Here drinking, smoking and gambling serves as a kind of group cohesion. Soldiers are together, but the officers, although trying to appear normal and casual still stay outside the group of normal soldiers.
Clip: 265
Notes:
ME: 2007-08-23: The two parties at base-camp symbolize also the two different squads: Elias’ squad, which does its job at war, but tries to keep up to some values, have a “fun-party”. In comparison Barnes’ squad, just sit, drink, and gamble, showing not much fun while doing this – this squad also commits war crimes.

Flashdance (1983, USA) by Adrian Lyne
Main Cast: Jennifer Beals
Company: Paramount Pictures
The movie is about Alex. She is 18 years old, works as a welder on daytime and as a dancer during the night. She wants to become a ballet dancer. She falls in love with the foreman Nick, who manages to arrange an audition for her.
Scene: tobacco female adults cigarettes nontransgressive solitary
1:18:22-1:19:07: smoking
Shortly before this scene Alex has learned that Hanna her mentor has died. In the scene we can see her sadly sitting at her flat, walking around and smoking. Sad music is playing. There is not any talking.
Smoking is here presented as something like a friend. It will be seen as addiction – normally someone, who smokes is seeing as addicted. There is no idea of such thing as a social smoker.
Clip: 168

Odissey (1989, RU) by Ilia Chotinenko
Denis, a young guy, moves from his village to the city to continue his education and find a job. In the city he meets his elder brother, who has to show him the city life. But the brother seems to be a bad guy, as he is a gangster.
Scene: tobacco mixed adults cigarettes nontransgressive in company
0:15:08-0:16:13: tobacco
The older brother takes Denis to a bar to meet his friends.
Clip: 378

Halloween (1978, USA) by John Carpenter
Main Cast: Donald Pleasence; Jamie Lee Curtis
Company: Compass International Pictures
A psychotic murderer returns to his hometown on Halloween and kills teenagers.
Scene: tobacco female adolescent or children cigarettes nontransgressive in company
0:19:35-0:20:27: tobacco
On the way back from school two girls share a cigarette.
This will be seen as addiction, as there is seldom a distinction between social and pathological smoking. One who smokes is addicted.
Clip: 200

20 sigaret (2007, RU) by Alexandr Gornovskiy
Main Cast: Oskar Kuchera; Iliya Lyubimov;
Company: Paradise Group
The film presents one day in the life of a Russian yuppie-manager of a big advertising agency. During this day he smokes a package of cigarettes. With every cigarette and every minute the speed of his life is hasting, making him choose between success and dignity, his friend and his business.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes transgressive solitary
1:16:20-1:17:55: tobacco
Early morning. Ilias has to make the decision between his friend and himself. He has to decide, who stays in the company with a higher position, and who will be laid off.
Clip: 375

Goodfellas (1990, USA) by Martin Scorsese
Main Cast: Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta
Company: Warner Bros.
Henry Hill becomes a rich gangster. In the end he testifies against his former gangster fellows.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes alcohol nontransgressive solitary
2nd disc
0:29:43:0:30:59: alcohol/gambling/tobacco
Henry and some friends gamble together. They drink and smoke. Someone is telling “jokes”.
This scene shows heavy alcohol consumption. But as everybody laughs and seems to enjoy the evening it will not be considered addiction.
Clip: 198

Once were warriors (1994, NZE) by Lee Tamahori
Main Cast: Temuera Morrison, Rena Owen
Company: Communicado
The movie tells the story of an indigenous family in New Zealand. Jake the father is very violent and hits and rapes his wife Beth. Nevertheless she stays. At one of the many parties at the house one of Jake’s friends rapes Grace, Beth’s and Jake’s daughter. Grace then commits suicide and only then Beth manages to leave Jake.
Scene: alcohol female adults beer or cider tobacco nontransgressive in company cigarettes
0:34:18-0:36:04: alcohol/tobacco
It is morning after Jake has beaten up his wife again. Beth is sitting alone at the table smoking and drinking beer. Her face is badly wounded. After a while one of Beth’s friends arrive and joins her in drinking. They have a chat.
Again it is more a problem of domestic violence then alcohol or smoking.
Clip: 252

Factotum (2005) by Bent Hamer
Main Cast: Matt Dillon; Lili Taylor;
Company: Arte
This movie tells the story of Hank Chinaski a freelance writer. He earns a living by temporary jobs, which he loses because of his lazy attitude and drinking. He ends on the street the very same time a magazine accepts one of his writings, but sends the letter to an old address.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigarettes cigars, pipes nontransgressive in company
0:12:01-0:13:05: tobacco
Hank’s boss wants him to meet a friend, who is as well a writer. All three smoke in the office. There is no real conversation and Hank leaves after a short while.
Clip: 346

Matti (2006, FI) by Aleksi Mäkelä
Main Cast: Jasper Pääkkönen, Peter Franzén
Company: Solar Films
The movie is about the life of Matti Nykänen. The very successful young ski jumper cannot handle his popularity and starts to drink, becomes violent and finally ends up in prison.
Scene: tobacco male adults cigars, pipes alcohol nontransgressive in company
1:19:55-1:20:37: alcohol
In this scene one can see a business meeting of the ski-jump federation. They are discussing about Matti’s back problem. They have a bottle of cognac/whiskey on the table and some are smoking cigars.
This will not be seen as addiction. Respectable business men are just having some alcohol to their meeting.
Clip: 237

Une belle fille comme moi (1972, F) by François Truffaut
Main Cast: Bernadette Lafont; Claude Brasseur;
Company: Les films du Carrosse
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He meets in prison Camille Bliss to interview her. Camille is accused to have murdered her lover Arthur and her husband Clovis. She tells Stanislas her life and her love affairs. Camille has her way with men and that becomes fatal for poor Stanislas. In the end of the film the roles of the powerful and the powerless get switched.
Scene: tobacco female adults cigarettes nontransgressive solitary
In the prison, Camille asks Stanislas for a cigarette in a challenging manner, using “street language” that Stanislas does not understand. Then she takes a cigarette and a lighter from her bra.
Clip: 63 (Addictions 1)

Heat (1995, USA) by Michael Mann
Main Cast: Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro
Company: Warner Bros.
The movie tells the story of Neil the cool head of a gangster group and as cool detective Vincent trying to catch him.
Scene: tobacco female adults cigarettes nontransgressive
0:05:15-0:05:50: smoking
In this scene Justine, Vincent’s wife is having a cigarette after sex. Vincent returns from the shower, and dresses for work. The same time Lauren, Justine’s daughter from former wedding shows up asking where her barrettes are. During the course of the conversation Justine continues to smoke.
If there should be a negative perception of the scene it will be about smoking in front of a child and even more the haste of Vincent, who has to rush to work and skips breakfast with his wife.
Clip: 203